Southern accents & the Northeast

[SField]

Originally Posted by Connemara

Hello to you too shitbag!

There is no Albany accent.

That's so strange, none of you realize how you speak. I seriously remember some woman telling me "Buffahlownians do NAHT hiave an ieaccent". You're all in denial. NY State has as many cringeworthy accents as Ohio, basically everywhere but Manhattan.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

I didn't feel like reading the whole thread, but since when is Midwest accent considered "normal/standard"? It certainly is not, in my opinion.

National newscasts are entirely done by anchors who speak in a Non-Boston New England / Manhattan accent (in my opinion, no accent). There is no NY accent - there is a Staten Island accent, and a Brooklyn accent (dying out fast), and maybe a Queens accent, I'm not sure. But Manhattanites generally speak just like anchors.

Midwesterners have more twang and definitely mannerisms/expressions that I do not hear on newscasts. Just my observations.

Absolutely. There are different hideous accents around Ohio and Illinois, and obviously many people from Indiana do not sound too bright either, if you believe the whole thing about accents subconsciously dictating how we evaluate a person's intelligence. I find that major, relevant cities, tend to have mostly neutral sounding people.

 

[grimslade]

Boston accent is one of the dumbest-sounding in America. IMH, non-chauvinistic, NY-born, O.

 

[mr. magoo]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

National newscasts are entirely done by anchors who speak in a Non-Boston New England / Manhattan accent (in my opinion, no accent). There is no NY accent - there is a Staten Island accent, and a Brooklyn accent (dying out fast), and maybe a Queens accent, I'm not sure. But Manhattanites generally speak just like anchors.

Accents tend to correlate to provincial educations, and Manhattan is full of people who are tremendously well educated and from all over, hence lower incidence of local accents.

That being said, I know several native Manhattanites who have accents. Ask a Manhattanite who's parents are from NYC and didn't go to any private school what what you pull out of a desk. Dollar says they say "draw" or "dro-wa." It's a little blind spot they have in their own accents.

 

[mr. magoo]

Originally Posted by bearlydavid

The Dallas Fort Worth area does not really have an accent.

First, that's a recent development. Find people over 60 from Dallas and they've got the flatest, longest Texan accents you'll find.

Second, it may not have one now, but it's filled with people who do have them.

 

[rach2jlc]

Originally Posted by SField

You're all in denial.

Don't worry... Conne is in denial about a lot of things; his lack of recognition of his annoying regional accent is the least of his problems.

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by mr. magoo

Accents tend to correlate to provincial educations, and Manhattan is full of people who are tremendously well educated and from all over, hence lower incidence of local accents.

That being said, I know several native Manhattanites who have accents. Ask a Manhattanite who's parents are from NYC and didn't go to any private school what what you pull out of a desk. Dollar says they say "draw" or "dro-wa." It's a little blind spot they have in their own accents.

I've heard this from Staten Islanders but not yet from Manhattanites.

 

[cpmac7]

well i am screwed. damn yankees....

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by grimslade

Boston accent is one of the dumbest-sounding in America. IMH, non-chauvinistic, NY-born, O.

I think Boston's mayor, Mumbles, disproves your point. Let's see him in action.


- B

 

[gnatty8]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

I think Boston's mayor, Mumbles, disproves your point. Let's see him in action.


- B

Still Tom Menino?

 

[X-It]

Originally Posted by rach2jlc

I was kidding... but really, southern people don't talk like that, so it seems one of those jokes that are funny only to people who've never actually spent any time in the South.

Had you used some things we actually DO say, like instead of "I'm preparing to" we say, "I'm a-fixin' to start..." or instead of "soon" we say "d'reckly" and we say "dinner" for lunch and "supper" for dinner... then it might have been more apt.

"Yoo betcha!"

"You're wikkit retahded!"

Hey rach2jlc, here brotha, check it out and have fun!

 

[desmarais]

I like to think I don't have an accent but I'm sure there are some words that I say and find normal but most of you would consider it strange sounding..

And it is a bad Northern stereotype that I'm part of when I hear someone with an extreme Southern accent I automatically think they might be a little slow.

 

[Connemara]

Having grown up on Long Island, I can say without reservation that the L.I. accent (particularly Nassau) is worse than a Boston one.

 

[Edward Appleby]

Originally Posted by bearlydavid

I think when you are talking about southern accents, it is mainly the rural areas.

The Dallas Fort Worth area does not really have an accent.

Yeah, very few people can place my accent as Texas. I think it gets stronger the smaller/more rural you get.

Anyway, discriminating based on accent is incredibly stupid. But if you think it's bad in NYC, or anywhere else in the U.S., go to the UK.

 

[Agnacious]

Originally Posted by grimslade

Boston accent is one of the dumbest-sounding in America. IMH, non-chauvinistic, NY-born, O.

Everytime I watch "My Cousin Vinny" I think about how you are not correct.